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BC-CfE authors' respond to critique of Lancet study of Vancouver’s supervised injection site

published on November 4, 2011

Earlier this year, the UHRI research team published a study in the medical journal The Lancet that demonstrated a 35% reduction in overdose following the opening of Vancouver’s supervised injection site. This study, which underwent extensive scientific peer review, has been criticized in a report commissioned by REAL Women of Canada and the Drug Prevention Network of Canada. The authors of the Lancet study have responded.